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Once I was asked, “What is philosophy?” I said, “Philosophy is the art of asking the
wrong questions.” The blind man asking “What is light?” — this is philosophy. The deaf
asking “What is music? What is sound?” — this is philosophy.
If the blind man asks, “How can I get my eyes back?” this is no longer philosophy, this is
religion. If the deaf goes to the physician to be treated so that he can hear, then he is
moving in the direction of religion and not in the direction of philosophy.
Philosophy is guesswork, it is speculation; knowing nothing, one tries to invent the
truth. And the truth cannot be invented, and anything invented cannot be true. The
truth has to be discovered. It is already there…all that we need is open eyes — eyes to see
it, a heart to feel it, a being to be present to it. The truth is always present but we are
absent, and because we are absent we cannot see the truth. And we go on asking about
the truth, and we don’t ask the right question: How to be present? How to become a
presence?